(Re)Collecting the Past

Contents: Victoria Carpenter: Introduction: (Re)Collecting the Past - Peter Beardsell: Some Thoughts on Quantum Mechanics and the Treatment of the Past in Mexican Theatre - Victoria Carpenter: When Was Tomorrow? Manipulation of Time and Memory in the Works of Mexican Onda - Anna Reid: The Reworking of Conquest in Three Recent Mexican Novels - María de los Ángeles Rodríguez Cadena: Relajo and Melodrama in the Fictional Portrayal of the Mexican Independence of 1810 - Lloyd H. Davies: Tomás Eloy Martínez and the Literary Representation of Peronism: A Tale of Bifurcating Paths? - Niamh Thornton: Being Fruity in the Big City: Re-membering the Past in Enrique Serna's Fruta verde - Dolores Flores-Silva: Re-Writing of History and Self-Representation in The House on the Lagoon by Rosario Ferré - Amit Thakkar: One Rainy Market Day: 'Integration' and the Indigenous Community in the Fiction and Thought of Juan Rulfo - Audrey E. García: Mexican Immigration and Popular Culture in El corrido de Dante by Eduardo González Viana - María del Pilar Blanco: Technology and the Making of Memory in José Martí's Exilic Writing - Silvia G. Kurlat Ares: Science Fiction Utopia as Political Constructio in Angélica Gorodischer.

The Editor: Victoria Carpenter is a graduate of the University of Central Florida (B.Sc., 1996) and the University of Hull (Ph.D., 2000). She is a Reader in Latin American Studies at the University of Derby. Her recent publications include the edited collection A World Torn Apart: Representations of Violence in Latin American Narrative (Peter Lang, 2007) and a number of articles on modern Mexican literature. She is the editor of the twentieth-century Latin American literature section of The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies.